Manifold memorandum-book



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

0. E. GOS BY.

MANIFOLD MEMORANDUM BOOK.

No. 442,362. Patented Dec. 9, 1890.

WITNESSES: INVENTOHI 0% QM a M A ATTORNEYS 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

0. E. GOSBY. MANIFOLD MEMORANDUM BOOK.

No. 442,362. Patented Dec. 9, 1890.

WITNESSES:

z ATTO R N EYS UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

(FIIARL 18 E. COSBY, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR TO CARTER & COMPANY, LIMITED, OF NIAGARA FALLS, NElV YORK.

MANIFOLD MEMORANDUM-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 442,362, dated December 9, 1890. Application filed July 28,1890. Serial No. 360,126. (No model.)

T 60% whom it may concern; latter portion of each leaf of the book is Be it known that I, CHARLES E. COsBY, of formed with the top extension 0, and theleaves Minneapolis, in the county of llennepin,in the are piled in block form with said extensions State of Minnesota, have invented new and of the leaves in corresponding positions, and

useful Improvements in Manifold Memoranthe block is bound at said extensions either 55 dum-Books, of which the following, taken in by means of wire staples b b, passing through connection with the accompanying drawings, the block and clinched, or by any other suitis a full, clear, and exact description. able and well-known devices. The book thus This invention has reference to the class formed is folded with the shorter halves a a of memorandum-books in which the memoover the longer halves a a of the leaves. 60 randum written on one leaf is reproduced on Said book may be provided with a stiff back an underlying leaf. by means of an intere, of pasteboard orother suitable material, unposed carbon sheet or transfer-sheet. der the portion of the book containing the The object of the invention is to provide a longer halves, said back being secured to the x 5 memorandum-book which shall have its book by the bindersh Z) passing through it, 6 leaves arranged to fold sidewise, similar to or the book may be secured to a back proother ordinary books, and thus be equally vided with a suitable tie or clamp f, by convenient in the manipulation of its leaves, which to fasten the book thereto, as repreand shall always have the leaf upon which sented in Figs. 4: and 5 of the drawings.

the memorandum is to be written and the The usual carbon sheet or transfer-leaf Z 70 leaf which is to receive the copy of the memomay be attached either to the bottom edge of randum in the center of the book, and thus the back, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, protected from being soiled or torn by being or to the side edge of the back, as represented carried in the pocket of the person in posin Fig. 2 of the drawings, or secured to the session of the book, and which book shall, back by means of a suitable clamp h, engag- 75 furthermore, be adapted to be used without ing one of the edges of said transfer-leaf, as any cover, and also adapted to be readily seshown in Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawings. In cured to a cover; and to that end the inven either case the said transfer-leaf is carried in tion consists of a memorandum-book comthe center of the book when closed, and in posed of a series of memorandum-leaves using the book the memoranda are always 80 piled in block form, each of said leaves havwritten 011 the leaves in the center of the ing one-half thereof formed with a top exbook, which leaves are kept clean by being tension and the block being bound at said covered by the adjacent leaves when the book extensions of the leaves and folded sidewise is closed.

5 with the shorterhalves overthelongerhalves, In using the described book it is to be 85 as hereinafter more fully described, and speopenedin the center, the transfer-leaf Zlying cifieally set forth in the claim. upon the top memorandum-leaf a. The top In the annexed drawings, Figures 1, f2, and leaf a is turned over onto the transfer-leaf, 3 are perspective views of memorandumand then the memorandum is to be written 40 books embodying my invention. Fig. 4 is a upon the leaf a, the underlying transfer- 93 perspective view showing one of said books leaf Z producing a copy of the memorandum secured to a cover and in its open condition; upon the leaf to in the usual manner. Then and Fig. 5 is alongitudinal section of the the leaf a is raised fromv the leaf Z and sevsame in its closed condition. ered from the leaf 0. by tearing it along the a and 0/ represent the two halves of one of dotted line (I, as represented in Fig. l of the the memorandum-lcaves of which the book is drawings, said line of separation being vercomposed. The portion a constitutes the tically across the center of the book and in leaf upon which the memorandum is to be range with the inner vertical edge of the leafwritten, and the other portion c is to reextension 0. After the separation of theleaf L ceive the copy of the memorandum. This a the transfer-leaf Z- is thrown off from the Ice leaves having one-halt thereof formed with the top extension 0, and the block being bound at said extensions of the leaves and folded 15 sidewise, with the shorter halves of the leaves over the longer halves thereof, substantially as described and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 21st day of July, 1890.

CHARLES E: COSBY. [L. s.] Witnesses: 7

FRE W. REED, F. X. CLAFFEY. 

